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Disability, accessibility, personalisation, inclusion and design BCS Bedford November 2016

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Disability, accessibility, personalisation, inclusion and design

BCS Bedford November 2016

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Introduction

I am Peter Abrahams• Secretary of the Digital Accessibility Specialist Group• Member of the Best Practice Committee• 50 Years in IT• Last 10 in AccessibilityMy aim today• Introduce digital accessibility• Encourage you to promote it

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BCS Strategy

The BCS Strategy

“Making IT good for society ”David EvansDirector, Policy and Community, BCS

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Society

• Society must mean all of Society• BCS must include everyone• In particular we must include people with disabilities

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Digital Inclusion

Group

SocialInclusion- Race- Religion- Gender- Orientation- Age

TechnicalInclusion- Access to HW- Fast broadband- Training

DisabilityInclusion- Movement- Vision- Hearing- Cognition

InclusiveBCS

Inclusive Group

Inclusive Society

Inclusive Profession

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Disability

Am I disabled?

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Ability Spectrum

Non-Dis-

Less-Ave- Super-

Permanent Temporary

Situational

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Why?

Moral – the right thing to do Financial – reaches everyone Legal – potential for court case Inclusive – better for everyone

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Accessibility

Computing for

peoplewith

disabilities

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Accessibility

Computing for

peoplewith

disabilities

AssistiveTechnology

Inclusive Design

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Drop kerb a11y

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UK Stats

7 million working age are registered disabled

Of those only 45% in work (cf 80% of overall population)

11 million below digital skills threshold

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Accessible to Whom

Customers Clients Students Employees Developers Designers Elders

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Simple A11y Checks

Correct tab sequence Zoom text Captions on videos Alternate text for pictures Accessible PDFs Fast Flashing Check Contrast

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Education

Digital Accessibility MOOC BCS Digital Accessibility -Web Essentials First Seven Steps to accessible websites First Seven Steps to accessible mobile

apps

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Useful Organisations

BCS Digital Accessibility SG Business Disability Forum AbilityNet Open Inclusion AXSChat

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Useful Links

Cambridge University Inclusive Design Toolkit

Colour blindness Test Understanding WCAG 2 Webaim WAVE BS 8878: 2010 - Web accessibility code of

practice

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Inclusive

Thinking about accessibility Creates accessible systems Creates more usable systems Essential for some Better for all

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Questions

Thank you Questions